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Richard McElreath

Active 2000–2025

52
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20,623
Citations
36
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Citations

Citations per year for Richard McElreath1912: 1 citations2000: 1 citations2001: 2 citations2002: 6 citations2003: 32 citations2004: 26 citations2005: 37 citations2006: 41 citations2007: 63 citations2008: 66 citations2009: 84 citations2010: 122 citations2011: 131 citations2012: 122 citations2013: 135 citations2014: 131 citations2015: 135 citations2016: 96 citations2017: 127 citations2018: 110 citations2019: 257 citations2020: 298 citations2021: 319 citations2022: 239 citations2023: 186 citations2024: 228 citations2025: 182 citations2026: 39 citations1913–1999: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,259 citing papers, 26.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 558 citing papers, 11.9% of this breakdownGermany: 403 citing papers, 8.6% of this breakdownCanada: 243 citing papers, 5.2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 195 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownChina: 154 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 153 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 145 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownFrance: 134 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownItaly: 121 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownSweden: 106 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSpain: 94 citing papers, 2% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Social Sciences35.6%
  • Psychology14.2%
  • Neuroscience11.9%
  • Computer Science9.5%
  • Decision Sciences4.9%
  • Medicine4.2%
  • Other19.7%

Topics

  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation8.8%
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies6.4%
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment5.6%
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior3.2%
  • Language and cultural evolution2.7%
  • Cultural Differences and Values2.4%
  • Other70.9%

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  1. Statistical Rethinking

    Authors: Richard McElreath - 2018 cited by 1,926

  2. The natural selection of bad science

    Authors: Paul E. Smaldino, Richard McElreath - Royal Society Open Science 2016 cited by 896

  3. Machine culture

    Authors: Levin Brinkmann, Fabian Baumann, Jean‐François Bonnefon, Maxime Derex, Thomas Müller, Anne-Marie Nußberger, Agnieszka Czaplicka, Alberto Acerbi, Thomas L. Griffiths, Joseph Henrich, Joel Z. Leibo, Richard McElreath, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Jonathan Stray, Iyad Rahwan - Nature Human Behaviour 2023 cited by 108

  4. Machine behaviour

    Authors: Iyad Rahwan, Manuel Cebrián, Nick Obradovich, Josh C. Bongard, Jean-François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, Nicholas A. Christakis, Iain D. Couzin, Matthew O. Jackson, Nicholas R. Jennings, Ece Kamar, Isabel M. Kloumann, Hugo Larochelle, David Lazer, Richard McElreath, Alan Mislove, David C. Parkes, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Margaret E. Roberts, Azim Shariff, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Michael P. Wellman - Nature, Nat. 2000 cited by 1,227

  5. Costly Punishment Across Human Societies

    Authors: Joseph Henrich, Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Laban Moogi Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank W. Marlowe, David P. Tracer, John P. Ziker - Science 2006 cited by 1,812

  6. Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment

    Authors: Joseph Henrich, Jean Ensminger, Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Juan-Camilo Cárdenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Laban Moogi Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank W. Marlowe, David P. Tracer, John P. Ziker - Science 2010 cited by 1,428

  7. “Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies

    Authors: Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin F. Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath, Michael Alvard, Abigail Barr, Jean Ensminger, Natalie Henrich, Kim Hill, Francisco Gil-White, Michael Gurven, Frank W. Marlowe, John Q. Patton, David P. Tracer - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2005 cited by 1,924

  8. In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies

    Authors: Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr, Herbert Gintis, Richard McElreath - American Economic Review 2001 cited by 2,612

  9. Different Populations of Blacklegged Tick Nymphs Exhibit Differences in Questing Behavior That Have Implications for Human Lyme Disease Risk

    Authors: Isis M. Arsnoe, Graham J. Hickling, Howard S. Ginsberg, Richard McElreath, Jean I. Tsao - PLoS ONE 2015 cited by 159

  10. Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan

    Authors: Richard McElreath - 2015 cited by 1,036

  11. The evolution of cultural evolution

    Authors: Joseph Henrich, Richard McElreath - Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews 2003 cited by 1,101

  12. Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations

    Authors: Tanya Broesch, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Bret Beheim, Aaron D. Blackwell, John Andrew Bunce, Heidi Colleran, Kristin Hagel, Michelle A. Kline, Richard McElreath, Robin Nelson, Anne C. Pisor, Sean P. Prall, Ilaria Pretelli, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Elizabeth A. Quinn, Cody T. Ross, Brooke A. Scelza, Kathrine Starkweather, Jonathan Stieglitz, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder - Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2020 cited by 169

  13. The life history of human foraging: Cross-cultural and individual variation

    Authors: Jeremy Koster, Richard McElreath, Kim Hill, Douglas W. Yu, Glenn H. Shepard, Nathalie van Vliet, Michael Gurven, Benjamin C. Trumble, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Douglas W. Bird, Brian F. Codding, Lauren Coad, Luís Pacheco-Cobos, Bruce Winterhalder, Karen D. Lupo, Dave N. Schmitt, Paul Sillitoe, Margaret A. Franzen, Michael Alvard, Vivek V. Venkataraman, Thomas S. Kraft, Kirk Endicott, Stephen Beckerman, Stuart A. Marks, Thomas N. Headland, Margaretha Pangau‐Adam, Anders Sirén, Karen L. Kramer, Russell D. Greaves, Victoria Reyes‐García, Maximilien Guèze, Romain Duda, Álvaro Fernández‐Llamazares, Sandrine Gallois, Lucentezza Napitupulu, Roy Ellen, John P. Ziker, Martin Reinhardt Nielsen, Elspeth Ready, Christopher Healey, Cody T. Ross - Science Advances 2020 cited by 108

  14. Egalitarian motives in humans

    Authors: Christopher T. Dawes, James H. Fowler, Tim Johnson, Richard McElreath, Oleg Smirnov - Nature 2007 cited by 597

  15. Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies

    Authors: Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Samuel Bowles, Tom Hertz, Adrian V. Bell, Jan Beise, Greg Clark, Ila Fazzio, Michael Gurven, Kim Hill, Paul L. Hooper, William Irons, Hillard Kaplan, Donna L. Leonetti, Bobbi S. Low, Frank W. Marlowe, Richard McElreath, Suresh Naidu, David A. Nolin, Patrizio Piraino, Rob Quinlan, Eric Schniter, Rebecca Sear, Mary K. Shenk, Eric Alden Smith, Christopher von Rueden, Polly Wiessner - Science 2009 cited by 498

  16. Ontogeny of prosocial behavior across diverse societies

    Authors: Bailey R. House, Joan B. Silk, Joseph Henrich, H. Clark Barrett, Brooke A. Scelza, Adam H. Boyette, Barry S. Hewlett, Richard McElreath, Stephen Laurence - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 cited by 455

  17. Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers

    Authors: Richard McElreath, Robert Boyd, Peter J. Richerson - Current Anthropology 2003 cited by 557

  18. Machine Behaviour (Originally Published 2019 by Springer Nature)

    Authors: Iyad Rahwan, Manuel Cebrián, Nick Obradovich, Josh Bongard, Jean‐François Bonnefon, Cynthia Breazeal, Jacob W. Crandall, Nicholas A. Christakis, Iain D. Couzin, Matthew O. Jackson, Nicholas R. Jennings, Ece Kamar, Isabel M. Kloumann, Hugo Larochelle, David Lazer, Richard McElreath, Alan Mislove, David C. Parkes, Alex Pentland, Margaret E. Roberts, Azim Shariff, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Michael P. Wellman - Machine Learning and the City 2022 cited by 11

  19. Mathematical Models of Social Evolution

    Authors: Richard McElreath, Robert Boyd - 2007 cited by 310

  20. Culture rather than genes provides greater scope for the evolution of large-scale human prosociality

    Authors: Adrian V. Bell, Peter J. Richerson, Richard McElreath - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2009 cited by 306

  21. Conformity does not perpetuate suboptimal traditions in a wild population of songbirds

    Authors: Lucy M. Aplin, Ben C. Sheldon, Richard McElreath - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017 cited by 118

  22. Estimating the reproducibility of social learning research published between 1955 and 2018

    Authors: Riana Minocher, Silke Atmaca, Claudia Bavero, Richard McElreath, Bret Beheim - Royal Society Open Science 2021 cited by 32

  23. Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Authors: Patrick Abbot, Jun Abe, John Alcock, Samuel Alizon, João Alpedrinha, Malte Andersson, Jean‐Baptiste André, Minus van Baalen, François Balloux, Sigal Balshine, Nick Barton, Leo W. Beukeboom, Jay M. Biernaskie, Trine Bilde, Gerald Borgia, Michael D. Breed, Sam P. Brown, Redouan Bshary, Angus Buckling, Nancy Tyler Burley, Maxwell N. Burton-Chellew, Michael A. Cant, Michel Chapuisat, Eric L. Charnov, Tim Clutton‐Brock, Andrew Cockburn, Blaine J. Cole, Nick Colegrave, Leda Cosmides, Iain D. Couzin, Jerry A. Coyne, Scott Creel, Bernard J. Crespi, Robert L. Curry, Sasha R. X. Dall, Troy Day, Janis L. Dickinson, Lee Alan Dugatkin, Claire El Mouden, Stephen T. Emlen, Jay D. Evans, Régis Ferrière, Jeremy Field, Susanne Foitzik, Kevin R. Foster, William A. Foster, Charles W. Fox, Juergen Gadau, Sylvain Gandon, Andy Gardner, M. Gardner, Thomas Getty, Michael A. D. Goodisman, Alan Grafen, Rick Grosberg, Christina M. Grozinger, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Darryl Gwynne, Paul Harvey, Ben J. Hatchwell, Jürgen Heınze, Heikki Helanterä, Ken R. Helms, Kim Hill, Natalie Jiricny, Rufus A. Johnstone, Alex Kacelnik, E. Toby Kiers, Hanna Kokko, Jan Komdeur, Judith Korb, Daniel J. C. Kronauer, Rolf Kümmerli, Laurent Lehmann, Timothy A. Linksvayer, Sébastien Lion, Bruce E. Lyon, James A. R. Marshall, Richard McElreath, Yannis Michalakis, Richard E. Michod, Douglas W. Mock, Thibaud Monnin, Robert Montgomerie, Allen J. Moore, Ulrich G. Mueller, Ronald Noë, Samir Okasha, Pekka Pamilo, Geoff A. Parker, Jes Søe Pedersen, Ido Pen, David W. Pfennig, David C. Queller, Daniel J. Rankin, Sarah E. Reece, H. Kern Reeve, Max Reuter, Gilbert Roberts, Simon K. A. Robson and 37 more - Nature 2011 cited by 498

  24. Conformists and mavericks: the empirics of frequency-dependent cultural transmission☆

    Authors: Charles Efferson, Rafael Lalive, Peter J. Richerson, Richard McElreath, Mark Lubell - Evolution and Human Behavior 2007 cited by 351